/ Recent content on Michael Ion Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:08:01 +0000 /posts/2020-02-10-pragmatic-programmer-notes/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:08:01 +0000 /posts/2020-02-10-pragmatic-programmer-notes/ “The Pragmatic Programmer”, which is considered by many to be a classic text on software engineering craftsmanship, has gotten a complete do-over after it was first published 20 years ago. In the following, a summary of the books key points follows. Preface: Care about your craft. Always scrutinize your work and reflect on it. There is always room for individuality, even in a big enterprise software project. Kaizen - continuous, regular small improvements over a long time. /posts/2019-09-05-ten-reasons-social-media-notes/ Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:08:01 +0000 /posts/2019-09-05-ten-reasons-social-media-notes/ In this very timely book, the author argues that the way social media has evolved is doing more harm to society than good. This is closely tied to the way online companies are making money (advertising). What follows is the summary of the Lanier’s key points and his thoughts on how to improve the situation. One: You are losing your free will New technology makes it easy to Collect vast amounts of data about you Take ruckschluss and Adapt marketing on an individual level Dopamine driven feedback loops allow for behaviour modification to the level of addiction. /posts/2018-05-09-ics-file-merger/ Wed, 09 May 2018 10:08:01 +0000 /posts/2018-05-09-ics-file-merger/ Planning to attend a local conference, I went through all the lectures and workshops that would interest me and wanted to add them to my calendar. Thankfully, the conference website has iCalendar files available, one for each event. I organise my agenda with Google Calendar, but I discovered that it is not possible to just import all of these .ics files at once. After a quick search, I discovered there were some small command-line scripts or windows executables available to merge several . /posts/2017-02-21-comparing-transportation-project/ Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:12:01 +0000 /posts/2017-02-21-comparing-transportation-project/ With some time during my holidays, I took part in the Open Energy Data Challenge 20171 organized by the City of Vienna council. The aim of the project was to come up with an original idea for putting the publicly available data of the most recent energy report2 to good use. Looking through the data For this, all participants received numerous excel files that contain all the data in a neat tabular form and additional visualizations used in the report. /posts/2016-04-21-introducing-code-poetry/ Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:37:01 +0000 /posts/2016-04-21-introducing-code-poetry/ Today I saw a seemingly randomly hanging little poster on a wall in my university. A poster for a code poetry slam. Say what? I was quite familiar with the concept of poetry slams. They got quite well known in German speaking regions after the excellent poem by Julia Engelmann went crazy viral in 2013 in all major medias (which you should check out if you know German. Yes, it is full of post-teenage-angst, insecurity, everything bothering about millenials and being one, but it is technically flawless and definitely leaves an impression on everyone listening). /about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /about/ My name is Michael Ion and I specialize in building data intensive systems. Currently I enjoy using Scala and Python to solve problems, although I believe in using the best tool for the job. On the DevOps side, I use Terraform with AWS amongst others. I have a Master’s Degree (Diplom-Ingenieur) from the Vienna University of Technology. I speak English & German fluently and am proficient in French & Romanian. /contact/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /contact/ There are a lot of ways to get in touch with me: Write me a mail. Contact me on LinkedIn. Follow me on Twitter. Star me on Github. Read me on Medium. /snippets/first/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /snippets/first/ This content is in snippets/first/index.md pwd /snippets/second/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /snippets/second/ This content is in snippets/second/index.md ls -la